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The article discusses the possibility of studying the representation of the royal power of the first Tudors period in England in line with one of the fastest growing areas of historical science - the new political history. At the present time researches on new political history are in demand both in the British and Russian historiography. The sphere of scientific interests of historians is now not so much the ideas, texts, traditions, but its’ special political language that helps to define the intellectual context, which served as the basis for it and in the developing of which they have played an important role. The author concludes that methods of political history allow the formulation of new issues and new challenges in the context of the representation of power, involving new types of sources and application of methods of related humanitarian sciences.